Political Quotes

“I announce that the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) and the Senator from Virginia (Mr. Warner) are necessarily absent. I further announce that, if present and voting, the Senator from Florida (Mr. Nelson) would vote ``yea.'' The yeas and nays resulted--yeas 60, nays 38, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 116 Leg.] YEAS--60 Akaka Baucus Bayh Begich Bennet Bingaman Boxer Brown (OH) Burris Byrd Cantwell Cardin Carper Casey Collins Conrad Dodd Dorgan Durbin Feingold Feinstein Franken Gillibrand Hagan Harkin Inouye Johnson Kaufman Kerry Klobuchar Kohl Landrieu Lautenberg Leahy Levin Lieberman Lincoln McCaskill Menendez Merkley Mikulski Murray Nelson (NE) Pryor Reed Reid Rockefeller Sanders Schumer Shaheen Snowe Specter Stabenow Tester Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Voinovich Webb Whitehouse Wyden NAYS--38 Alexander Barrasso Bennett Bond Brown (MA) Brownback Bunning Burr Chambliss Coburn Cochran Corker Cornyn Crapo DeMint Ensign Enzi Graham Grassley Gregg Hatch Hutchison Inhofe Isakson Johanns Kyl LeMieux Lugar McCain McConnell Murkowski Risch Roberts Sessions Shelby Thune Vitter Wicker NOT VOTING--2 Nelson (FL) Warner The PRESIDING OFFICER. On this vote, the yeas are 60, the nays are 38. Three-fifths of the Senators duly chosen and sworn having voted in the affirmative, the motion is agreed to. Under the previous order, the amendment, as modified, is agreed to. The amendment was ordered to be engrossed, and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time.…”